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The following is not a question: Can something come from nothing?

Poll: Do you think the question "can something come from nothing" is a problem for atheism?
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The following is not a question: Can something come from nothing?
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RE: The following is not a question: Can something come from nothing?
April 3, 2014 at 5:12 pm
(April 3, 2014 at 5:04 pm)Chas Wrote:
(April 3, 2014 at 3:08 pm)max-greece Wrote: Actually, specifically, the photon did not come from an existing electron. The electron lost nothing in the production of the photon.

The photon is the loss of energy of the electron.

Which brings us back to my original point that a photon is not just energy.
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